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Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Beauty
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I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
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…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
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…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
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She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.
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In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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where I wholly love I wholly trust.
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Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
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Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
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